Anyway, I found three small groves of them (so far), all of which were at the edge of something. One was on a slope at the edge of the woods, one was on a trail in the middle of the woods...
...and the last group was under my favorite sycamore beside the creek.
In September, the "fruits" looked like this...
Strange little things, aren't they?
Their colors changed from white to pink to a brilliant fuchsia over the next 4-6 weeks and when I looked at them yesterday, the pods had opened to reveal these crazy red berries.
Those wahoos are fun to look at with all that dangly jewelry...and it's fun to say their name out loud too.
Nobody knows what the heck you're talking about when you start talking about wahoos...and I'll be even more obnoxious next year if I get around to planting pawpaws and possumhaws. Nothing can beat saying the name of the plant with a hundred pink earrings though.... Wahoooooooo!
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Those are a new one on me. But I really like the name. They are a pleasant addition to the browns and golds of the autumn pallet. Are the edible? Yummy? Tart? Incredibly bitter and noxious? Looking forward to info on pawpaws and possumhaws. any relation to potawatomis?
P.S. THANKS for the link to the murmuration of startlings!
starlings
Two TWO T.W.O. TWO posts!!!!!! Oh My! Those wahoos got you all jazzed up Maria and we get two, TWO posts :) I have never heard of or seen wahoos but they are a lovely color. I do know about pawpaws though! Nada to possumhaws but you can bet I will be googling. So you been out there on that LAND! I need to read your other post, I think it must be about starlings :)
Leenie-I think wahoo fruits are edible by birds and critters but they are not the first choice if there is something more interesting available. You would think with so much show they would be a fun thing to eat...but nope.
Potawatomis. That's fun to say out loud too. Might be a good future pet name.... :-)
And regarding starlings...starlings can be startling. No correction necessary. :-)
Pix-I KNOW! I think it's because those d*mn books are out of my life...I'm just going to move forward and think that they really are. Gawd. Those things just wore me down. Now I need to finish up all those half-written posts that have been sitting around for a couple months...and there are aplenty.....
Yes, there is such a thing as a possumhaw. I forgot that another native plant that is fun to say out loud is sassafras!!! The ones you gave me did not grow much this year but they're definitely alive. Wahoo, possumhaw, pawpaw and sassafras. Hahaha. That's a garden that might work better in the auditory sense rather than the visual one. :-)
Wow...I don't think our euonymous here in Connecticut bear fruit. I hope that's how it's spelled;)
Mental-It's a weird word. It makes your face look weird when you say it out loud too.
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